Roman Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart, and attached railings
Roman Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart, Queen's Avenue
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1221068
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Roman Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart, and attached railings
- Statutory Address:
- Roman Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart, Queen's Avenue
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1221068
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Roman Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart, and attached railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- Roman Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart, Queen's Avenue
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Roman Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart, Queen's Avenue
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Stoke-on-Trent (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 86442 51304
Details
SJ 85 SE
613-1/2/164
STOKE ON TRENT
TUNSTALL
Queen's Avenue (south east side)
Roman Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart, and attached railings
II
Roman Catholic Church. 1925-1930. By J.S Brocklesby, completed by P J Ryan, the parish priest. Rusticated stone with copper domed roofs. North west tower, nave with two aisles, chancel and ambulatory. Romanesque Basilica style.
Northwest tower with round-arched doorway in north wall and tiers of blank arcading over, elongated in second stage. Bell chamber lights also form part of an arcaded tier. Pilaster buttresses at angles form small pinnacles to parapet. Giant archway to west door with chevron moulding, frieze and round-arched window above, all contained beneath giant archway. Interlaced arcading in stepped gable, and decorated round stair turret to south west. Nave divided into bays by deep buttresses over the flat roofed aisles. Each bay contains three round-arched windows in the aisle, and a tier of three-lights to the clerestory. A series of three domes form the roof. Apsidal east end with ambulatory. The church is bounded on the north by a low stone wall with wrought-iron railings with geometric Art Nouveau detailing.
INTERIOR arcades of clustered, banded shafts. A series of side altars in the north aisle, and the main altar, all marble, richly decorated with inlay and mosaic. Simply carved bench ends. Much of the labour of building the church, and some of the internal decoration said to have been provided by the parishioners themselves during the Depression.
Listing NGR: SJ8644251304
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384472
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1963)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 265
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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